bottle

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped

Definition categories: man–made, vessel

2. the quantity contained in a bottle

Similar word(s): bottleful

Definition categories: quantity, containerful

3. a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children

Definition categories: man–made, vessel

Sentences with bottle as a noun:

- Beer is often sold in bottles.

- I only drank a bottle of beer.

- The baby wants a bottle.

- You don't have the bottle to do that!

- Did you know he's a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.

- to drown one's troubles in the bottle

- Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" (song): See, my old man's got a problem. He live[sic] with the bottle; that's the way it is.

verb

1. store (liquids or gases) in bottles

Definition categories: possession, store

2. put into bottles

- bottle the mineral water

Definition categories: contact, lay, place, pose, position, put, set

Sentences with bottle as a verb:

- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.

- The rider bottled the big jump.

- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.

- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.